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Type locality. — White Mountains, N. H. 



Distribution. — Maine 13, New Hampshire 3, Massachusetts 3, New 

 York 3, New Jersey 1, Pennsylvania 1, Washington 1. Published 

 records not duplicated above: Maine (Johnson, Procter), New York 

 5 (West), New Jersey 4 (Smith), Connecticut (Schaffner and Gris- 

 wold), British Columbia (Tothill). 



Type.— Male, U.S.N.M. No. 3624. 



Hosts. — Lycia cognataria (Guenee) 52. Published records not 

 duplicated above: Lycia cognataria (Tothill, Johnson), Nacophora 

 quernaria (Abbot and Smith) (Schaffner and Griswolcl), unidentified 

 Geometridae (Schaffner and Griswold). 



Remarks. — The foregoing description was based on an examination 

 of the following material : type male with discals on the third seg- 

 ment (Morrison) ; 52 reared specimens bearing Gypsy Moth Labora- 

 tory note numbers; five males and five females collected in various 

 places by Slosson, Townsend, Aldrich, and Walton (all but one of 

 the collected specimens had discals on the third abdominal segment). 



Adults, June to August ; generations, one ; number per host, one ; 

 hibernation, in the puparium. There was a macrotype es:g jutting 

 from the ovipositor of one of the collected females. 



15. APLOMYA EPICYDES (Walker), new combination 



Tachina epicydes Walkek, List of the specimens of dipterous insects in the 



collection of the British Museum, pt. 4, p. 7S6, 1849. 

 Exorista a/finis (Fallen) Coquillett (partim), U. S. Dept. Agr., Div. Ent., 



Tech. Bull. 7, p. 94, 1897. 

 Exorista epicydes (Walker) Austen, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, vol. 19, p. 



336, 1907. 

 Zenillia coerulea Aldrich and Webber, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 63, art. 17, 



p. 23, 1924.— Johnson, List of New England Diptera, p. 196, 1925. 

 Zenillia epicydes (Walker) Aldrich, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus.. vol. 80, art. 10, p. 10, 



1931. 



Head with front in male at narrowest 0.17 to 0.19 and in female 

 0.26 to 0.28 of head width ; frontal row of 10 to 13 bristles in male 

 and 7 to 11 in female extending from on a level with base of third 

 antennal segment to two reclinate preverticals ; facial ridge bristly 

 on lowest one-fourth; genae about one-seventh eye height; para- 

 frontal, face, and gena silvery pollinose with a blackish tinge; third 

 segment of antenna from one and three-fourths to twice second: 

 arista thickened on basal one-third, penultimate segment short. 



Thorax black covered with gray pollen with a slight bluish tinge, 

 five black mesonotal vittae; scutellum varying from yellow to black, 

 densely covered with silvery-gray pollen; legs black; midtibia with 

 two median anterolateral bristles in male and three in female; 

 hind tibia unevenly ciliate; wing hyaline, bend of last section of 



